“We have so much more in common than what separates us” -Kamala Harris 09.17 ABC News Transcript

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Transcript of video: Kamala Harris says 'harmful' attacks on Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, 'a crying shame' linked below Sept. 17 on ABC News 

Harris on ABC 0917

ABC: Madam vice president, I want to move to Springfield Ohio and what's happening there. We've seen school closures, parents worried about their kids leaving the home because of racist conspiracy theories that I won't repeat here. But they have been repeated by leaders on  the Republican side, former president Trump and Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance. From your perspective, is this just a case of irredeemable racism that can't be mitigated by any rational action? Or is this a situation in which a federal response could help this community heal there's a question of resources and

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Kamala Harris: It's a crying shame. I mean my heart breaks for this community. There were children, elementary school children who it was it was school photo day, you remember what that's like- going to school on picture day who were dressed up in their best, got all ready, knew what they were going to wear the night before, and had to be evacuated.

Children children, a whole community put in fear and i'll say a couple things about it.

One, I learned a long time ago in my career, having a background as a prosecutor. When you have these positions, when you have that kind of microphone in front of you, you really ought to understand at a very deep level how much your words have meaning.

I learned at a very young stage of my career that the meaning of my words could impact whether somebody was free or in prison.

As attorney general of California, fifth largest economy in the world, I was acutely aware that my words could move markets. When you are bestowed with a microphone that is that big, there is a profound responsibility that comes with that, that is an extension of what should not be lost in this moment this concept of the public trust.

To then understand what the public trust means, it means that you have been invested with trust to be responsible in the way you use your words, much less how you conduct yourself, and and especially when you have been and then seek to be again president of the United States of America.

And so I go back to it's a crying shame literally what's happening to those families, those children in that Community, not to mention what is happening in terms of look-

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Spewing lies that are grounded in tropes that are ageold and look- this is not new. This is not new in terms of these tropes, not new where it's coming from.

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You say you care about law enforcement, law enforcement resources being put into this because of these serious threats that are being issued against a community that was living a productive good life before this happened-

And spewing lies that are grounded in tropes that are ageold and look- I said it not very far from here the other day at the debate.

This is not new.

This is not new in terms of these tropes this is not new in terms of where it's coming from.

And whether it is refusing to rent to black families; whether it is taking out a full page ad in the New York Times against five innocent black and Latino teenagers the Central Park 5, calling for their execution; whether it is referring to the first black president of the United States with a lie, birther lies and look-

The American people deserve- and I do believe want- better than this, I do believe that. I know the vast majority of us as Americans know we have so much more in common than what separates us.

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Let's turn the page on this.

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I know that. I know that regardless of someone's background their race their gender their geographic location I know that people are deeply troubled by what is happening to that community, in Springfield Ohio and it's got to stop.

And we've got to say that you cannot be entrusted with standing behind the Seal of the president of the United States of America engaging in that hateful rhetoric that as usual is designed to divide us as a country, is designed to have people pointing fingers at each other, it's designed to do that.

And I think most people in our country, regardless of their race, are starting to see through this nonsense and to say-

Let's turn the page on this.

This is exhausting and it's harmful and it's hateful and and and and grounded in some age-old stuff that we should not have tolerance for. So let's turn the page and chart a new way forward and say you can't have that microphone again

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